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Narrative of a Trip to the Bahamas. 

 By Glover M. Allen and Thomas 

 Barbour. Cambridge, Mass. Decem- 

 ber, 1904. Privately printed. 8vo. 10 

 pages, illustrated. 



This is the descriptive itinerary of a trip 

 chiefly in the islands of Great Bahama, the 

 Abacos, and New Providence, made in July, 

 1904. The authors propose to publish re- 

 ports on their collections in various branches 

 of natural history, later; Mr. Allen's, on 

 the birds, has already appeared (' The 

 Auk '). The reader will find here some 

 very useful hints on outfit, as well as descrip- 

 tions of the islands visited. 



Of the Flamingo on Abaco, it is said : 

 "Formerly these birds nested in great 

 flocks, but, owing to the great destruction 

 of the eggs and young birds by the people 

 of Marsh Harbor, a mere remnant now re- 

 mains." Let us hope that the recently en- 

 acted Bahaman law will at least prevent the 

 wholesale, open destruction of Flamingos 

 and their eggs which has heretofore pre- 

 vailed.— F. M. C. 



Birds of THE Bahama Islands. By Joseph 

 H. Riley. Special publication from 'The 

 Bahama Islands,' bj' permission of the 

 Geographical Society of Baltimore, 1905. 

 8vo. Pages 347-368. 



Mr. Riley here discusses in a workmanlike 

 manner the zoogeographical position of the 

 Bahamas and the origin of their bird-life. 

 He gives, also, a useful list of Bahaman 

 birds, with the islands in the group on which 

 each species occurs. We trust that the other 

 papers in the volume, of which this forms a 

 part, treat of their respective subjects as 

 satisfactorily es does this one. — F. M. C. 



Bird Study. Home Nature-study Course, 

 College of Agriculture, Cornell Univer- 

 sity. New Series, Vol. I, No. 4, April, 

 May, 1905. 16 pages. Anna Botsford 

 COMSTOCK, Editor. 



We have had so many helps to bird study 

 prepared by ornithologists who were not 

 teachers that we should give an exception- 



ally cordial welcome to this leaflet written 

 by a teacher of wide experience who has 

 definitely in mind just what teachers as well 

 as pupils require. 



Thecourse of study here outlined makes the 

 best use of the most easily available material 

 and seems admirably adapted to arouse and 

 stimulate the child's interest in bird-life. 

 We trust that this publication may have 

 wide circulation, especially among teachers. 

 We know of nothing of its kind which it 

 should not replace. — F. M. C. 



The Ornithological Magazines 

 The Auk. — In the April 'Auk' we find 

 an unusual number of half-tones illustrat- 

 ing several extremely interesting papers. 

 E. S. Cameron, in ' Nesting of the Golden 

 Eagle in Montana,' takes us into the eyrie 

 of a pair of these birds, and as the weeks 

 roll by we become well acquainted with the 

 growing eaglets and their daily life. The 

 life history of the American Brown Creeper 

 is similarly portrayed by Dr. A. P. Chad- 

 bourne and Messrs. Kennard and McKech- 

 nie, all of whom have found this bird breed- 

 ing sparingly in Massachusetts. A. H. 

 Clark contributes a paper on ' Migration of 

 Certain Shore Birds,' chiefly the Golden 

 Plover, and is of the opinion that these 

 birds find their way by breasting the trade- 

 winds or winds prevailing at the time of 

 their long migration from the Arctic circle 

 to Patagonia. To assume that they guide 

 themselves in this way when passing over 

 the land, as well as over the open ocean, is 

 perhaps pushing the theory to an extreme 

 to which other believers in this idea have 

 not ventured. ' Summer Birds in the Ba- 

 hamas ' is a list containing the description 

 of a new Hairy Woodpecker [Dryobates 

 I'illosus piger) , as well as a great deal else 

 that is of more interest to the general reader. 

 Egg-collectors will be specially interested 

 in ' Nesting Habits of Birds in Mississippi,' 

 by C. R. Stockard. The birds seen in a 

 single day in Jefferson Parish, La., are 



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